Books & executive guides.

The Resilient Institution™

Governance, financial resilience and institutional endurance for NGOs, Foundations and mission-driven organisations.

The Resilient Institution

Building trust, governance and sustainable impact in mission-driven organisations.

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Covers board oversight, enterprise risk, blended finance, ESG, cyber governance and AI-readiness — with practical CFO Insights, Boardroom Questions and Action Checklists. Includes "The Architecture of Resilience," a short story on the same themes. Free to read online in full.

What readers are saying

"The Resilient Institution is a timely and practical guide for leaders who understand that sustainable impact requires more than a strong mission. By connecting governance, strategic finance, risk, technology, leadership and trust, Sunil Kumar challenges organisations to move beyond compliance and deliberately build the institutional resilience required to endure."
— Solomon Isaac Faibil, FCA, CTP, FFA, FIPA, Founder & Principal Consultant, SIF Accounting & Tax Solutions Ltd (SIF Advisory)

$29Buy on GumroadKindle $12.99 · AmazonPaperback $19.99 · AmazonHardcover $29.99 · AmazonApple Books

Governance Lessons from the Field Start here — free

An executive governance briefing for CEOs, CFOs and Board Members.

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18 real governance failures and near-misses, turned into practical lessons — not theory, but the specific moments where a Board's decision (or silence) made the difference between a manageable problem and a crisis. If you only read one thing before deciding whether IGMA™ is worth exploring, this is the free, no-risk way to see the thinking behind it.

What readers are saying

"This excellent pocketbook has concrete practical ideas that NPOs will want to use immediately. It is brief, because it has distilled decades of a practitioner's wisdom, and bottled it up in a small jar."
— Sanjay Agarwal, Principal, Sanjay Aditya; author of the AccountAble Handbook on FCRA 2010

"Effective risk management is no longer merely a compliance exercise — it is a strategic necessity. I would not be surprised if Governance Lessons from the Field becomes an authoritative reference for risk management in the non-profit sector."
— CA Subhash Mittal, Founding Partner, Subhash Mittal & Associates, New Delhi

"An outstanding, practical guide for board members, CEOs, CFOs, and nonprofit leaders. Packed with high-impact tools — like the Funding Concentration Risk Matrix and the Risk Visibility Matrix — this is a 90-minute working manual that leaders will revisit repeatedly."
— CA Sanjeev Kumar Dora, Ex-Director Finance and Internal Control, Impact Guru Foundation

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The Governance Health Check

What if your organisation's greatest risk isn't financial, but a governance weakness no one has identified?

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A practitioner's diagnostic — not a generic checklist — for boards and CEOs who suspect their biggest risk isn't financial but a governance weakness nobody has named yet. If your organisation has never formally assessed its own governance, this is the lowest-friction way to start.

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A Governance Maturity Framework for FCRA-Registered Organisations New

Building the systems that protect mission-driven organisations from regulatory, financial and reputational risk.

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The book version of the thinking behind the IGMA™ FCRA toolkit — building the systems that protect Indian NGOs from regulatory, financial and reputational risk under FCRA. Useful even if you're not ready to buy the full $500 assessment toolkit; it explains the governance logic behind it.

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The Nonprofit Resilience Health Check New

The Governance & Reserves Sustainability Toolkit — a practical check on whether your organisation has the reserves and governance discipline to withstand a funding shock.

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A focused look at reserves and financial sustainability specifically — for boards who want to know whether their organisation could actually survive a funding shock, not just whether this year's budget balances.

$4.99Kindle · AmazonPaperback $15.00 · Amazon

The Governance Health Check™: 20 Questions Every Board Should Ask New

To strengthen governance, build institutional resilience and protect donor trust.

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A shorter, sharper companion to the full Governance Health Check book — 20 direct questions to strengthen governance, build institutional resilience and protect donor trust. Good for a Board meeting discussion starter rather than a full read.

$4.99Kindle · Amazon

The Architecture of Resilience New

A Practical Framework for Building Stronger Lives, Organisations and Futures — not to be confused with the free short story of the same name.

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A framework, not a story: Purpose → Reality → Portfolio → Priorities → Allocation → Capability & Leverage → Protection & Resilience → Optionality → Review, Learn & Adapt. Includes a full Resilience Toolkit — Architecture Canvas, Portfolio Inventory, Fragility Scan, Decision Record and more — for individuals, leaders, Boards and mission-driven organisations examining what makes a system genuinely resilient rather than just currently successful.

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The Strategic Life

Career, money and personal effectiveness — for anyone building a life, not only a career.

The Wealthy Life New

How to build a career, money and life that work together.

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For anyone who has become financially successful while quietly becoming poorer in health, relationships or purpose. Presents wealth as six dimensions — financial, physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual — with a practical operating cycle, not just motivational framing. Free to read online if you want to try before buying.

What readers are saying

"What stood out to me in The Wealthy Life is its central proposition that wealth should be viewed as a portfolio, rather than simply a financial measure. By bringing together financial, physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions, the book challenges readers to think more holistically about how wealth is created, protected and sustained. The practical examples, reflection points and application exercises make the concepts accessible and actionable."
— Solomon Isaac Faibil, FCA, CTP, FFA, FIPA, Founder & Principal Consultant, SIF Accounting & Tax Solutions Ltd (SIF Advisory)

$29Buy on GumroadListen free · YouTubeKindle $12.99 · AmazonPaperback $19.99 · AmazonHardcover $24.99 · AmazonApple Books

Optimise Your Return on Effort New

A practical framework for better decisions, career growth and future readiness.

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Introduces SROE — Strategic Return on Effort — for anyone whose problem isn't lack of effort but not knowing where that effort is best spent. A practical decision framework (Decide → Allocate → Execute → Review → Adapt), not another productivity-hacks book.

$19Buy on GumroadListen free · YouTubeKindle $12.99 · AmazonPaperback $16.99 · AmazonHardcover $24.99 · AmazonApple Books

Personal Efficiency & Career Growth Set Bundle

Optimise Your Return on Effort + The Wealthy Life, bundled.

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Both Strategic Life books together, at a saving over buying them separately.

$38Buy on Gumroad

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